Atomic Systems

Been reading about this in an (old) flight sim book. Just wondered if it's still kicking about (and XP compatible) and if it was/is any good?

Doubt if it's XP compatible, my copy's on 5 1/4" floppies!

Was good for its age though: very immersive, although it could be a bit pedantic about if you'd flown past VOR beacons correctly.

IIRC it was made by some of the Flight Simulator people who left when MS bought them out?


Peter

The atc procedures were good, but like programs of this age, required some imagination with the graphics. Flight models were a bit...ummm... odd. Back then I loved it but I doubt it would hold my interest for more than 20 minutes these days.

I give it..

Yes I guess FS9 probably does everything and more that ATP would do. Probably the same age then as the old Amiga Airbus programmes.

ATP had better air traffic control than FS2004. Seriously. Microsofts version has hilariously funny bugs sometimes. The best one was a DH Comet re-enactment. Somewhere over the Black Sea I was still being asked to contact an RAF approach frequency. Help Ribs hurting...

Several times FS9 ATC has routed me into a mountain and once cleared me to land at the same time another aircraft was taking off in the opposite direction on the same runway. Now that's a near miss!

However it's better than no ATC at all, let's hope the next version of FS gets even better - unfortunately it does rather show up what was missing in MSTS, reasonably realistic dynamic despatching and routing.

and let us not forget, the MSFS classic - a Cessna Skylane on approach at LHR. With a 747-400 and a 777 screaming up behind it.

Or being asked to change frequency sixteen times whilst on a ten mile approach to LAX

Come on LAX Tower, can't you read your e-mails some other time?